Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-24
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The Pope has personally taken DR.. Nc
iniudieious friends will keep their hands off
all may yet be we'll.
The boycotted Old Dominion Steamboat
company has done just right in obtaining a
mandamus to compel one of its customers
to receive consignment from the company
in pursuance of its obligations as a common
carrier.
The wires are going underground in New
York city, and soon one of the great nui-
sances which have afflicted the people OF that
city will be removed. It is time to think
about putting the wires underground in
New Haven.
Private ownership in land is worth some
thing in parts OF Boston. Thirty-three
thousand square feet of land, or two thirds
OF an acre, situated on State street, Boston,
facing the spot where the |'Boston massacre"
of 1910 occurred, has just been sold to
syndicate of capitalists for SO. 600.
1t is getting safer and safer to ride on
railroads, but during the last seven years
there have been 2, 659 persons killed by rail-
road accidents in the United States and
Canada, and over l., eco injured. The year
1886 had zoe less accidents than 1885, but
these killed fifty more passen ers notwith-
standing. The year 1884, with nearly 500
killed and 1900 injured, still stands ont
prominently as the most fatal to railroad
passengers during the past decade.
Once in great while q short and simple
bill is introduced in legislative body. The
following bill has been introduced in the
Maine legislature:
Sec, i, The dog is hersby declared to be a
domestic animal.
Sec 2. This act shall take effect when
approved.
This is not a joke. 1t is understood that
the bill is introduced TO avenge the loss of a
cherished dog, because under existing Maine
law the thief could not be convicted of lar
ceny.
A new pistol was recently tried in Vienna.
In this invention the use of G cartridge is
dispensed with, the bullet itself being pre-
pared with an explosive. But, in spite of
this explosive nature of the bullet. it's shape
is not altered by the explosion. The explo-
vided in the interior of the pistol. The
experiments were made with single-barre1
pistolet (the barrel being four eentimetres
long and its calibre six miliimetres). At
range of thirty PAGES a three-quarter-inch
thick wooden board was pierced by the
bullet. Then a pistol with a simple acting
magazine was tried, allowing the discharge
of forty shots per minute.
The Washington correspondent of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat says there has been a
marked change of late in the Presidents
manner toward representative men of his
party. The correspondent continues: For
long time he was business like and often
brusque with Democratic congressman who
came to see him. He gave time grudgingly.
He was impatient with those who differed
with him. Instead of the stand-up recep-
ton, the FsWell, -what-is it?'' manner, and
the dismissal after a hurried presentation of
business, Democratic leaders are now asked
to come at off hours; they are invited to sit
down; they are questioned; they are consult
ed, and their views to various features of
party policy are heard with manifest respect.
This change in the President is almost start
ling in its suddenness. It has come since
his rheumatic attack, and the only fear of
those who have witnessed it personally is
that it may not last beyond the next national
convention.
Although few children study enough, in
school or at home, to hurt themselves, there
is just now an agitation against studying at
home. A number of parents in Somerville,
Massachusetts, asked the school board to
arrange matters so that children need not
study at home. They stated that their chill
dren suffered mentally from being over
tasked, and physically from being deprived,
by the demands of home study of the sports